Transdniester

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New York, March 26, 2015--The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the detention of a journalist in the separatist Transdniester region of Moldova and calls on authorities to release him immediately. Sergei Ilchenko, a freelance contributor to local and regional media, has been held for more than a week and equipment seized from his and his son's homes, according to news reports.

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New York, May 6, 2011--The Committee to Protect
Journalists welcomes the release of independent journalist Ernest
Vardanian, at left, who was unconditionally pardoned by the president of the unrecognized
separatist Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR).

Vardanian had served more than a year of jail time since the PMR arrested him on treason charges in April 2010; he was accused of allegedly spying for Moldova proper. Vardanian denied the charges. He was convicted in December in a closed trial and was serving a 15-year-long term until his pardon on Thursday. The PMR, commonly known as Transdniester, broke away from Moldova proper in 1990.

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New York, December 17, 2010--The Committee to Protect Journalists today condemned the 15-year prison sentence given to independent journalist Ernest Vardanian, who has been held on falsified espionage charges in the unrecognized separatist Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR) since April. The PMR is commonly known as Transdniester, and broke away from Moldova proper in 1990.

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We issued the following statement today after authorities
in the unrecognized Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic released an alleged
confession by independent journalist Ernest Vardanian, who has been imprisoned
since April 7 on trumped-up treason charges ...

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New York, April 16, 2010—The Committee to Protect
Journalists called on authorities in the unrecognized Pridnestrovian Moldavian
Republic (PMR) to immediately release journalist Ernest Vardanian, at left, who has been
jailed in the regional capital of Tiraspol for treason since April 7.